Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.